Strong's #1980: episkeptomai (pronounced ep-ee-skep'-tom-ahee)

middle voice from 1909 and the base of 4649; to inspect, i.e. (by implication) to select; by extension, to go to see, relieve:--look out, visit.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

̓́

episkeptomai

1) to look upon or after, to inspect, examine with the eyes

1a) in order to see how he is, i.e. to visit, go to see one

1a1) the poor and afflicted, the sick

1b) to look upon in order to help or to benefit

1b1) to look after, have care for, provide for: of God

1c) to look (about) for, look out (one to choose, employ, etc.)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: middle voice from G1909 and the base of G4649

Citing in TDNT: 2:599, 244

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Matthew 25:36: "me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison,"
Matthew 25:43: "sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not."
Luke 1:68: "God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his"
Luke 1:78: "whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,"
Luke 7:16: "us; and, That God hath visited his people."
Acts 6:3: "Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report,"
Acts 7:23: "into his heart to visit his brethren the children"
Acts 15:14: "how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people"
Acts 15:36: "unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in"
Hebrews 2:6: "the son of man, that thou visitest him?"
James 1:27: "the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in"